WATER PROBLEM
at
SER-ANGLONG
(N.E. in Assam, India)
CONTENTS
•Project Process
•Introduction
•Visit On A Village Ser- Anglong
•About The Village
•A View Of Ser-Anglong
•Survey Of Ser -Anglong
•Main Problem – Water
•Suggestions For Solution To The Problem
Our Project Process
We are Intel Learn Learners made this multimedia project on a problem
which we have identified in our surroundings and tried to find out proper
solution through these following process.
 First we interacted with the community members and found out many problems that the
community is currently facing.
 We tried to prioritize the problems within the community and found out the most important
problem as “Water Problem in Ser-Anglong
 Then we prepared a questionnaire and started a survey in the community
 After the survey we started a project and used multimedia technology
 Drew a map of our village in paint brush for pointing out the location
 We captured few snaps of village wells because wanted to show its condition
 Started analysis with help of MS Excel and made a chart which is helpful to understand the daily
use of water between two families
 Created a Flyer in word doc for a community meeting announcement
 Searched internet and got some good points of digging wells in proper area and gave those
suggestions to our community people
 Through Internet we got some govt. connections and helped the community people to send their
application
 At the end of the program we are the learners showcased our multimedia project in front of
community people and tried to motivate to solve their current problem collaboratively
Introduction
Water problem is one of the major problems in India. In
India every year thousands of people suffer and about 1,600 people
die from water borne diseases such as Diarrhea, Dysentery, Cholera
etc. and most of them are children below the age of five
A site visit to village Ser-Anglong
Ser-Anglong is a village of Karbi Anglong district (Assam). This
village is very near to our school, so as part of the Intel Learn
project, we went to there to survey the daily lives of village people.
We saw that they have different problems, but water problem was
the biggest problem, because of poor water facilities.
We felt sad that the people did not even offer us a glass of drinking
water – because of water scarcity
About The Village
Our Observation - The village Ser-Anglong is a geographical hilly area. Here rain
comes in summer. Generally the weather of the village is hot in summer and cold in
winter. Due to hilly area people are unable to dig well deeply cause of hard soil and
hard rock under the ground. The distance from Diphu town is about 5 km – Diphu is
the nearest place where water pipelines are there. Here the main transportation is by
auto that is very costly.
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So we decided to conduct a survey….
Our Survey questions and answers
We are the students of J.N.V Diphu, we are here for a survey
Our Questions ------
Villagers Answers ----
Q.1. Can you help us by answering
some of our questions regarding this
village?
A.1 Yes, sure of course. You can.
Q.2. How many people are there in
your village?
A.3. Only a few of them are literate.
Q.3. How many of them are literate?
Q.4. What is the main problem in your
village?
A.2. There are about 800 people in our village.
A.4. Water Problem is the main problem in our
village.
Q.5. What are the main water source
in your village?
Q.6. Is this two wells sufficient for your
daily uses?
A.5. There are two wells in our village, one is in
the west of our village and the other one at the
center of the village.
A.6. Since two wells are not sufficient for us
and sometimes it get dried up and during the
rainy season the water becomes very muddy
which is not safe for drinking.
Q.7. Why didn’t you dig another well?
A.7. Because we don’t have sufficient money.
Our Survey Report
A8. Yes, after use of water we get lots of diseases like
dysentery, diarrhea, cholera etc. And more over lots of people
die from these diseases.
Q8. After using this
water do you face
any problem?
Q.9 Then why didn’t
you use drilling?
Q10.Does you find
any difficulties in
using this water and
in which season do
you face the most?
Q11. How do you
conserve water?
A9. We are unable to use the drilling machine because it is very
costly and we are unable to collect the funds.
A10. Yes, we find lots of difficulties in using this water specially
during the winter season the well use to be dried up due to
scarcity of rain water. Rain water is the main source of water
here. Moreover in summer too the water becomes muddy but
we people are force to use this water since there is no any
other way of finding water and moreover the Government are
not supplying any water facilities. So, small children and babies
are facing lots of difficulties from using this water and they get
lots of sickness. Moreover women are force to carry water from
the other villages.
A11.: We conserve water by digging as a small muddy well just
like a pit to store water especially during the summer and rainy
season and some store water in the drum, sintax where the
water falls from the roof.
Our Survey Report
A12: Some of the people boil water
and drink and some people boil and
pour it in the filter for the better
purification.
Q12. Does the village people drink
water without purifying?
Q13. By using this water do you get
any diseases?
Q14. Did you all discuss and complain
about this problem?
Q.15. Are you searching any solution?
A13. Yes, we get lots of diseases like
skin diseases, diarrhea, cholera,
athlete’s feet etc.
A14. Yes, of course we have
discussed about this problem and
complain too. We tried to dig another
well but it was unable to dig so we
have complain about it to the
Government and political leader (E.M)
and also.
A15. Yes we need immediate solution
Our Survey
We discussed with the village people and knew that they
are suffering from water scarcity
We saw that the water of the
wells is muddy.
Some
of
Villagers
informed that rain water
is collected in a muddy
well.
We visited and checked few wells & saw
the conditions of those. They said that in
winter the water level goes further down
Women daily spend many hours
to fetch water from the well
Graphical Representation of our Analysis
Hanse’s family with 4 members are living in Ser-Anglong. Teron’s family is
also four members but they are living in council colony of Diphu Town.
Here the graph of water used by two families in various tasks.
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Our team proposal
Suggestions to Solve Water Crisis
1.
The village people committee will talk with
District council for supply of sufficient
amount of water in their village.
2.
Need to dig two wells in this village. Find a
good place for the well. There must be a water
source, such as an open body of water or a
running stream. We came to know after the
thorough study through internet that the well
should be at least 100 feet from the source, so
that the ground can act as a natural filter for
the water.
3.
Cover the bottom of well with about four or
five inches of small rocks. This will act as a
filter and will help keep insects and wildlife
from entering the well from below.
4.
The village committee should also write an
application to Public Health Emergency
department to provide sufficient amount of
fresh drinking water.
Flyer for Village meeting to
solve Water Crisis
Shivraj Kemprai
Class – VIII Age 14
Rupkasen Terangpi
Class - VIII
Age: 14
Homsira Teronpi
Class - VIII
Age: 14
Peter Lhouvum
Class - VII
Age: 12
We want to acknowledge with thanks
• Our Principal Mr. M.K. Jagdish
• Facilitator: Manoj Kumar Sarma, Jawahar Navodaya
Vidyalaya - Diphu, Karbi Anglong, Assam
• www.google.com
Larlyn Teronpi
Class: VIII
Age-14